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[quote=Anonymous]The college admissions reps from the Ivies, and certain other small colleges that get a lot of applications from the well-known independent schools in this area, are very familiar with the schools (to the extent that I've seen an Ivy rep on a school visit greet a specific teacher and talk about that teacher's style in writing recommendation letters -- apparently the letters were unusually good/literate/interesting).

The 17:50 poster's stats look accurate to me.  I'm more familiar with STA over the past few years and while some students admitted to Ivies/Stanford/MIT/Duke/UChicago etc. have "hooks" (sports, alumni child, under-represented minority), the majority of them are unhooked but just very strong students (grades/scores).  The top 20% in the class does quite well in terms of admission to the most selective schools.  Last year, as I recall, STA had 5 go to Harvard and 5 go to Yale, and I think this year something like 5 got into Harvard early action and 4 to Yale.

With that said, those top students would, I'm sure, do just as well out of the many good public schools in this area.  But the poster who suggested that only 1-2 students per school can get into the most selective colleges is actually underestimating the number somewhat.

On the original "bottom half of the class" question, my sense is that Sidwell (and the other good local independents) does well -- they do have many smart kids with high board scores who are well-qualified to attend some of the many great colleges we're lucky enough to have in the U.S.

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